Conversations 5: Vulnerability scanning to the rescue

“Networks are living and breathing things. They don’t sit still. Your vulnerabilities will change on a daily basis, for sure, and you need to be on top of that,” says Dick Bussiere, principal architect for Tenable Network Security in the Asia Pacific region.

That’s why Tenable is advocating what they see as a revolution in maintaining a data network’s security posture.

“We’re kind of advocating that people perform vulnerability assessment, and remediation of vulnerabilities, as a constant and continuous process, rather than something that you do on a periodic basis,” Bussiere says.

By a happy coincidence, that matches the processes of continuous vulnerability measurement and measured risk reduction that are now mandated for US government networks — creating a ready market for Tenable, and a salutary model for others to follow.